I am a great believer in the power of personal reflection and using problem solving thinking to develop ourselves as Lean Leaders. Problem solving thinking (using the PDSA or A3 thinking process) can be applied in a variety of ways to work on self improvement.

The personal A3 process can help you gain greater clarity on your leadership gaps and to become more intentional about improving your skills as a Lean leader. Create a plan and conduct short experiments for improvement. Focus on getting a little bit better every day.

Learn more about the Personal Improvement A3

Update: To learn more about the Personal Improvement A3 process, check out these posts:

Mark posed that “your job is to work yourself out of a job”. Each of us should always be thinking about the next step in our careers, and to do so, you need to be developing both yourself and your successor.

Source: Mark Reich (this image can be found on the Lean Post article sited in the text).

Regardless of what problem you are trying to solve – including your own leadership and coaching capabilities or the next step in your career – applying problem solving thinking to yourself can be a great practice. We are all better coaches and leaders of problem solving when we have struggled with the thinking process ourselves!